BFF 2023 will be held in Vantaa on Saturday May 13th 2023. Kino has 135 seats.
The event will be a one-day event, the whole of Saturday. We will show at least 2 feature films, plenty of short films, selected films and winners of the festival.
Schedule (please note that estimated times are not sharp, allow +/- 15 minutes):
- 14:30-16:00 VIP guests only.
- 16:15 What’s with the Necklace? (The Philippines) runtime 12:51
- 16:30 Selected: Caged Wings (Italy) 6:38
- Selected: Light Room (Iran) 14:26
- 17:00 Selected: Ruffled Feathers (United Kingdom) 25:00
- 17:30 Selected: Ancestral Anarchy (South Africa) 19:46
- 18:00 Best Sound Effects and Best Special Effects: Prexmas (Finland) 15:47
- 18:30 Best Short (0-1000 euro budget), Best Soundtrack and Best Average Score by Judges: Do We Have a Chance? (Italy) 4:40
- Best Short (1.001-10.000 euro budget) and Best first-time-filmmaker: Residual Alibi (United States) 16:33
- 19:00 Best Feature: Apples, Oranges, Lemons & Lime (United States) 44:55
- 20:00 Vote for audience’s choice
- 20:30 Chat + clean up
- Off to after-party outside, if weather is good or to the near by pub in Koivukylä district.
The Festival event will be held in Rekolan Kino, Vantaa, Finland. The capacity is 135 people.
130 metres to the nearest bus stop with routes 631, 721/N and 723. 650 metres to the bus stop with routes 587, 624, 631, 721/N and 735. The closest railway stations are Rekola 650 metres and Koivukylä 1,1 kilometres away. If you wish to arrive, please email to budgetfilmfestival@gmail.com latest on Friday and kindly ask, if we have any seats left?
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Jury:
Pouya Aghelizadeh
Iran
Pouya Aghelizadeh is a filmmaker, screenwriter, movie editor, and film critic. He has Master of Arts in Dramatic Literature from Art University of Tehran. He started filmmaking in 2010 with the movie named “The Nest” based on Kafka’s story and followed the depiction of Surrealism and Magical Realism with “Room No. 4” (2016), “Light Room” (2020), and “PlayBack” (2022). Pouya Aghelizadeh is the founder of movie analysis sessions named SurrealSundayS in 2016; Since then, he professionally works on film criticism, especially Modern Cinema. He has articles about great filmmakers like Ingmar Bergman and Luis Bunuel and also the History of Cinema on movie narratives. He is also the director of Iranian Contemporary Experimental Cinema in 2017 and 2019. Now he is attending great film festivals like Busan, Goteborg, and Berlinale International Film Festivals; He writes reviews for new movies and is preparing his first feature film screenplay to be made internationally. Instagram.com/Pouya_Aghel
K. R. Ambol
Philippines
Kevin Rome Ambol is a Director, Producer, Writer and Film Editor. He started his filmmaking in 2012 with films such as Ayuda (2012), Dalamhati (2012) and Dukha (2013). He then had a 10-year Hiatus after his 1st films due to his Commitments and Studies. He graduated at University of Southern Mindanao with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in English Major in Applied Linguistics (2014) and at New Era University with a degree in Evangelical Studies (2019). Due to the worldwide pandemic, He started to create films again such as The Proselyte (2022), an experimental film which gained him International successes and his first film in 10 years. He is currently planning on making his first feature length film and hopes it would be as successful.
TA
Cameroon
Tanwi William publicly known as Amerion or Amer is a executive at Lamido Records with 10 years helping musicians and filmmakers with production. Specializing in Sound Recordist, Composition, Sound Editing and Distribution.
Ame uses that experience to produce, marketing and distribute which is one of the most important aspects of his job.
Amerion strengths at Celine Praise Entertainment has garnered some recognition for Best sound at C.P.E Award 2019 and was Nominated for Best Sounds 2022 at the Red Feather with the movie Elvira’s Ill Mind, And as the sound engineer of 2 nominated film at Ecran Noir Award that is for the movie BALL and An Illustion, Amer Distributed and Market over 150 music in his localities and has work with well known African faces Franck Rajah ( 9 time Africa Academy Award as Best Director). Ame may spend their days at studio, but it’s shooting a series of African story that gets him up in the morning and getting good film to distribute.
When they’re not at work, Ame is an avid movie and loves spending time making research on African History.
Valentina Galdi
Italy
Valentina Galdi is a writer and a film director based in Italy. Valentina has written and directed several short films since 2016 under her production company, The Gladiator Company, which have toured the fest circuit. She earned her bachelors in Economics and Business management, she went on to pursue her Level 1- Master’s degree in Marketing with a focus on Marketing in the Cinema Industry. She also attended various courses including scriptwriting course with Dominick Tambasco , assisting director course, theatre workshop with Matteo Salsano and Chiara De Vita, and hands-on learning the techniques of audiovisual representation with Alessandro De Filippo. In 2019, Valentina wrote the screenplay for Usura an Italian short film, and a theatrical monologue for At The Root Theatre in Scotland (“Superheroes”, 2020).
Her latest directorial short films continue to garner accolades and awards from around the world allowing her to be part of numerous international juries from Rome to the USA.
In December 2021 she won the “Il Vince” Award at the 9th Edition of Premio Vincenzo Crocitti International in Rome as a newcomer scriptwriter and director.
RJ
India
RJ
Finland
RK
England
JP
Finland
Director and producer of Capacity (2023) and Police Crimes (2022) feature films along with several short films. Studying creating stunning special FX for future films.
Frits Soetmann
Finland
Born in Enschede, Holland. Moved at age of 5 to Borne. After primary school, studied Marketing, Management at business schools LOS and MOS. From 1982-2000 regularly performances, stand-up on festivals. 1986 moved to Switzerland 1989 South Afrika 2006 Equal partnership contract. 2008 Moved to Finland. 2016-Starting with acting in Finland. Different supporting roles in Finnish series. 2019- Different roles in Finnish movies 2022 Character, supporting role in a Dutchmovie, “Max, een band voor het leven”, Mainrole in “Odina Fox”, Supporting role in “Capacity”
Masoud Soheili
Iran